2011/11/12 Friedrich Romstedt <friedrichromst...@gmail.com>: > This is my summary of what I found out.
Some small follow-up regarding what might trigger the bug: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/1115 is a report by Chris Barker indicating as a side-effect that NISC18030.ttf was present even in 2005. It "could not be loaded" that time. I.e. it didn't cause a Bus error. That it was attempted to be loaded indicates that the fontcache was to be rebuilt that time, so the file must be present. http://code.google.com/p/anki/issues/detail?id=560 indicates that, in 2008, on a 10.5 OS X the file could "not be loaded" too. Again, just the attempt implies that the fontcache was rebuilt. So the file must be present, except if the font_manager.py logic of early 2009 is the result of a dramatic change since then. It appears very probable that the Bus error is not triggered on 10.5, but only on 10.6, when building with MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5. It remains unclear starting from which patch version of 10.6 it appears, and also if it is a gcc-4.2 only issue. In the case it is gcc-4.2 related, it would explain the rarity, because gcc-4.2 was introduced in 10.6, so who would build with 10.5 deployment target? If 10.5 is targeted, you mostly need to use gcc-4.0 anyway. (This is something I overlooked myself for my own decision until now.) Friedrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
